Railroad Tiles: Canals Expansion

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Grade 3-AD
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Charlotte Mason
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Product Overview

  • Build canals through your village and travel network
  • Place gondolas on canals and build bridges over them
  • For 1-4 players with solo mode challenges included
  • Added challenges for Railroad Tiles with 45-minute game time
Warning
Choking Hazard
  • Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

Description

In Railroad Tiles: Canals Expansion by Horrible Guild Games, build canals through your city and travel network, earning points for consecutive canal tiles. Place the 41 Canal Route Tiles in the included cloth bag and set up the game using the manual’s chart to integrate expansion tile offerings with the base game tiles. Add the gondola and bridge pawns and canal end tokens to the general supply. The rest of the setup is the same as the base game. 

Gondola pawns are placed in canals and substitute for any one of the base game pawns each turn, earning 1 point for each bridge over the same canal. Bridge pawns connect both sides of a route that are interrupted by a canal. Canal End tokens close canal openings if they end at another tile with an empty side instead of extending the canal. This helps reduce the number of openings counted at the end of the game, which can lose points.  There are three new solo mode challenges and three sets of new objective tiles for added end-game goal points. For 1-4 players with a 45-minute game time. The base game is required to play. ~ Marsha

Publisher's Description of Railroad Tiles: Canals Expansion
Create a network of Canals complete with Gondolas and Bridges.
Category Description for Railroad Tiles Game & Expansions

Have fun building roadways, railroads, and cities with this unique, strategic tile-laying game. Published in 2025 along with eight expansions, Railroad Tiles is easy to get started with the base game and plays with up to 4 people ages 8 and up. Then, when you want more variety and challenge, sample some of the expansions to add various types of scenic tiles and new scoring goals. 

Railroad Tiles Game: It all starts here, and all expansions require this base game to play.  Following a concise, illustrated rulebook, use basic tile selection in turn order to choose the tiles each round to add to your quickly expanding travel network. This game and all its expansions include thematic route tiles to add to tile choices, and the game works best with only one expansion at a time being added to the base game. Also included with expansions are thematic challenge tiles as well as solo play challenges. Here is a brief overview of each expansion, with more detail available in each of their individual descriptions. All expansions require the base game to play.

Canals Expansion – Canal tiles transform your network as you place gondolas for travel on them and bridges to span them.

Countryside Expansion – Travel the countryside and add barns, fences, pastures, cows, pigs, and sheep to your expanding network. 

Desert Expansion – Did you say camels!? Connect deserts to railroads and highways and place camel pawns in your new arid environment.

Energy Expansion – Do you hear the air crackling? It must be the energy you provide towns and cities with to power them up and earn more points!

Forest Expansion – Enjoy beautiful fall colors in the forest and equip forests with lookout towers to help keep wildlife and tourists safe.

Lakes Expansion – Create lakes and ports and place ferry tokens where the roads meet the water in your busy network.

Monuments Expansion – Play as an archaeologist traveling the highways and railroad lines while discovering sites to build arches, temples, and tower monuments.

Railroad Tiles: World Expansion –  This is the only expansion that lets you play either with just the core game or with the core game AND any other expansion. Special pawns with unique placement rules (travelers, cars, and trains) provide added points.

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Product Format:Other
Grades:3-AD
Brand:Horrible Guild
EAN/UPC:8056324762515
Length in Inches:4.625
Width in Inches:9.5
Height in Inches:1.75
Weight in Pounds:0.9
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